snicklin Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Sure, sounds like a great thread! You had me worried at the beginning of the sentence where it sounded like you had to hide your Antic listening Randy There are some seats down here too and there is a TV which my wife and child watch. I have had the podcast (and other podcasts) out loud before, but I just keep on being asking "What's that? What are they on about?", so I do sort of hide it now, with headphones rather than location. It is like it is my little secret now! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bcombee Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Just listened to the Bill Wilkinson interview; it was awesome hearing from one of my programming icons who influenced so much of my early computing life. It made me sad to hear that OSS wasn't financially successful for him, but I'm glad he had some good memories. I really relished my Basic XL cart, but never got any of the other OSS carts until I started collecting in the 90s. As for podcasting tools -- one that I've heard a bit about, but never used, is the Levelator program that was developed by The Conversations Network early in the life of podcasting. They shut down a few years ago, but the program is still available with instructions at http://web.archive.org/web/20130729204551id_/http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 A new interview for you. ANTIC Interview 13 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Ihor Wolosenko Ihor Wolosenko was co-founder of Synapse software, the company that brought us SynFile and SynCalc, and an amazing list of games including Blue Max, Zeppelin, Fort Apocalypse, Alley Cat and Shamus. And Nautilus, and Rainbow Walker, and Protector II, and others. Kevin interviewed Ihor on December 23, 2014. Related link: https://archive.org/details/SynapseSoftwareArt 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbking67 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Just Listened to the Ihor from Synapse interview podcast and it was great. You should follow up with him again at some point there is so much more you could get into! I'd be interested in some details about the productivity apps like SynAssembler and maybe go through some of the games as well. It sounded like he had many more stories to tell. The other thing is that the audio quality this time was very very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Indeed I liked the Ihor interview a lot. Interesting view on piracy. He understood there would be some shrinkage along with sales. It sounded like he supports try before you buy as well. Good job! Did you know that FileManager was ported to the PC as well (FileManager +)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilaskey Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 On your magazines feature, you missed another fairly good UK one:http://www.atarimania.com/atari-magazine-ukacoc-newsletter-monitor_49.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) Podcasting type people. Midimaze for the 8-bit is on AtariMania http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-midi-maze_3380.html Also Video61 sells it as a cart. http://members.tcq.net/video61/compnew.html Bruce at B&C sells the midi adapters: Hybrid Arts MIDI Music interface ACA086 MIDIMATE INTERFACE NO SOF 49.95ACA037 MIDITRACK II 800/800XL 69.95ACA038 MIDITRACK III 130XE 69.95 I have a booth at VCF East and I am considering having MidiMaze set up with a couple of ST's and a 130xe. -Pete Edited January 29, 2015 by Fletch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkindig Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Hi, Fletch, Since the podcast, I found midi-maze at AtariMania and we've already ordered some midi-mates from Bruce at B&C to get this set up. We're going to set up a midi-maze demonstration with 8-bits (and likely ST's) at VCF Southeast. I was not aware that Lance had the actual cart. If we prove this works, then I would like to buy the cart. It would be great if you set something up at VCF East, which none of us Antic hosts are going to be able to get to. thanks for the information! Randy co-host Antic Podcasting type people. Midimaze for the 8-bit is on AtariMania http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-midi-maze_3380.html Also Video61 sells it as a cart. http://members.tcq.net/video61/compnew.html Bruce at B&C sells the midi adapters: Hybrid Arts MIDI Music interface ACA086 MIDIMATE INTERFACE NO SOF 49.95ACA037 MIDITRACK II 800/800XL 69.95ACA038 MIDITRACK III 130XE 69.95 I have a booth at VCF East and I am considering having MidiMaze set up with a couple of ST's and a 130e. -Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkindig Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 By the way, I don't see MidiMaze at Video61. I see something called Midas Maze. Was that a misspelling or am I missing where it lists Midi-Maze? thanks Randy Podcasting type people. Midimaze for the 8-bit is on AtariMania http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-midi-maze_3380.html Also Video61 sells it as a cart. http://members.tcq.net/video61/compnew.html Bruce at B&C sells the midi adapters: Hybrid Arts MIDI Music interface ACA086 MIDIMATE INTERFACE NO SOF 49.95ACA037 MIDITRACK II 800/800XL 69.95ACA038 MIDITRACK III 130XE 69.95 I have a booth at VCF East and I am considering having MidiMaze set up with a couple of ST's and a 130e. -Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 By the way, I don't see MidiMaze at Video61. I see something called Midas Maze. Was that a misspelling or am I missing where it lists Midi-Maze? thanks Randy http://members.tcq.net/video61/whatsnew.html Try this link! Maybe I sent the wrong one last time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gozar Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Hi, Fletch, Since the podcast, I found midi-maze at AtariMania and we've already ordered some midi-mates from Bruce at B&C to get this set up. We're going to set up a midi-maze demonstration with 8-bits (and likely ST's) at VCF Southeast. I was not aware that Lance had the actual cart. If we prove this works, then I would like to buy the cart. It would be great if you set something up at VCF East, which none of us Antic hosts are going to be able to get to. thanks for the information! Randy co-host Antic You could just spend $100 at Atarimax and get 5 8Mb carts, then you can use them for whatever games you want. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gozar Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 You could just spend $100 at Atarimax and get 5 8Mb carts, then you can use them for whatever games you want. :-) Oh wait, Midi Maze is a 128K rom? How would I use it on a real computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Over the weekend, I set up Midi Maze with a 130XE, a 140STf, Mega ST2, and a Falcon as a pretest for VCF EAST. Everything went ok as long as the 130XE was the master. The 8-bit version does not seem to support bots and has a limited subset of mazes. I used Fandal's version of Midi Maze on the 130XE. My 130XE is expanded to 320 kb, not sure what Fandal's version requires, but I am fairly certain it does not work on the standard 128 kb. On the ST's and Falcon I used version 1.0 of Midi Maze. All worked well! -Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Oh wait, Midi Maze is a 128K rom? How would I use it on a real computer? Use a flashable cartridge, like MaxFlash 1Mb from Atarimax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Over the weekend, I set up Midi Maze with a 130XE, a 140STf, Mega ST2, and a Falcon as a pretest for VCF EAST. Everything went ok as long as the 130XE was the master. The 8-bit version does not seem to support bots and has a limited subset of mazes. I used Fandal's version of Midi Maze on the 130XE. My 130XE is expanded to 320 kb, not sure what Fandal's version requires, but I am fairly certain it does not work on the standard 128 kb. On the ST's and Falcon I used version 1.0 of Midi Maze. All worked well! -Pete Can you describe the setup. What did you use to hook up the 103XE? Midimate, 850, etc.? Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I'm looking forward to seeing this at VCF East. Bill 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 (edited) Can you describe the setup. What did you use to hook up the 103XE? Midimate, 850, etc.? Allan Allan, I used a Wizztronix MidiMax adapter, which seems to be MidiMate compatible, on the 130XE. I installed Fandal's version of Midi Maze on my SiDE 2. I cabled the MIDI OUT from the MidiMax to the MIDI IN on the 1040, and repeated on to the Mega, then to the Falcon and back to the MidiMax. I then booted the 1040ST, then the Mega, then the Falcon. All indicated that they were slave machines. Lastly I booted the 130XE and that indicated it was the master. I chose the game options and the maze on the 130XE. Started the match and all played like a champ. I did have one game hang after the match was over, but I believe that was due to memory issue on the Falcon related to booting off the hard drive. I rebooted the Falcon from just the floppy and all of my other tests worked swimmingly. Edited February 9, 2015 by Fletch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I have a couple of Midi-mates. I'd like to try this with my two 130XEs. Hopefully I can make it to VCF East. Allan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Today I finished listening to the David Small interview - what an interesting person. Thanks guy for the great interview series. And even though I have heard of him before, and even though I googled something completely different tonight (Action! and the Bit3 80 Column Display). I read through the texts and ... WTF ...is this the subconsciousness plugin in Google Chrome or what... http://forums.atari.org/read.php3?num=4&id=2389&thread=2385 http://www.atarimagazines.com/v2n8/missionaccomplished.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkindig Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Concerning the latest interview with Sal Equivel on Antic, if you go to the Atlantis Games Group site, you get the following message: "Due to the poor attitude on certain discussion forums, Atlantis Games Group will not continue to develop new products for the Atari 8-bit community." I'm trying to find out from Sal what's happening here. It's not clear even whether the games already put out by Atlantis Games Group are even sold anymore through Video 61. Sorry about that. I didn't check to see if anything had changed before I posted the interview and links. That's what happens when it takes 2-3 months to post an interview because of the backlog. Randy co-host Antic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Yeah, we're a laugh a minute . Sounds like we're more often inadvertently funny than on purpose. We'll be happy to mention the new season of the High Score Club. Randy Thanks for that. I've just got up to date with my listening, apart from a few interviews.... so Randy what have you been doing on the Atari since last time... errm nothing... So Brad have you played Atari today erm NO! Yet each time there's still an hour or two of great listening! I now know so much more about the Apple systems Some of the interviews are incredibly heartfelt with some amazing stories like the one from Fernando Herrera. Keep up the great work guys ...Where do you predominantly listen to your Antic? I listen to mine underneath the house in a car port area with my big headphones on while coding or browsing. Someone out there must be "Antic in the Attic"? p.s. I was in stiches with the ITalk thingy you could get it to do a mini pod cast segment each time using the different voices or edit in some heckles perhaps. Or for those who think 5 hours is too long for each episode it could read the whole thing at high speed for the 'Antic blipcast' back to my assembling... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 (edited) Concerning the latest interview with Sal Equivel on Antic, if you go to the Atlantis Games Group site, you get the following message: "Due to the poor attitude on certain discussion forums, Atlantis Games Group will not continue to develop new products for the Atari 8-bit community." I'm trying to find out from Sal what's happening here. It's not clear even whether the games already put out by Atlantis Games Group are even sold anymore through Video 61. Sorry about that. I didn't check to see if anything had changed before I posted the interview and links. That's what happens when it takes 2-3 months to post an interview because of the backlog. Randy co-host Antic Certainly Atlantic's right to stop making products, but placing the blame on reactions from internet forums seems really bizarre. Have the Atlantic guy's been on internet forums? Do any internet forums have a good attitude? Sad as I was looking forward to buying Sal's ST to Component adapter, but if his skin is that thin maybe its for the best that he exits the scene. Edited February 24, 2015 by Fletch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I loved the interview with David Small. I remember him from back in the day when he created the Magic Sac and Spectre 128 cartridges that allowed an Atari ST user to run Macintosh software on their machines. I wanted to own a Mac back in that era but it was way beyond my price range. I would finally get to own a Mac but it was not until 2004 and I have been using them ever since. Thanks to David Small, a lot of people got to experience a Mac that would have otherwise not been able to. He definitely was an interesting person and it was great to hear what his perspective was from that era. Thanks Antic Podcast group for putting that interview together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 Thanks for that. I've just got up to date with my listening, apart from a few interviews.... so Randy what have you been doing on the Atari since last time... errm nothing... So Brad have you played Atari today erm NO! Yet each time there's still an hour or two of great listening! I now know so much more about the Apple systems Some of the interviews are incredibly heartfelt with some amazing stories like the one from Fernando Herrera. Keep up the great work guys . Well Bob, I don't disappoint this month either. As some probably know, doing a job search when you're our age is stressful and time consuming to say the least. But...! It looks like I may have to come up with a new excuse soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 It would be cool to see Games People Play running on a computer with Internet connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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